Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] to people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social care in a group care setting covers the time spent talking with and listening to people , hearing their stories , nurturing and encouraging them in the effort to make sense of the later stages of life . |
| 2 | It is a paradox of modern-day business that , with time-saving devices such as desk-top computers , satellite telecommunications , electronic mail and supersonic aircraft , many managers find even less time to devote to essential profit-making activities — such as thinking and listening to people . |
| 3 | Okay well do n't worry do n't worry he ca n't you know just think of something though having said that if you look at the role that you played in the group moving towards the chairman 's style , taking over the group perhaps becoming and you were n't a person that sort of took over and forced your views on everybody but you were certainly up there at the front with and listening to people taking information and manipulating everything that you had to fit what was coming in from everybody so that does show Chairman 's skills , Chairman tendencies |
| 4 | subsequently after about ten flights , and porting over the books , and speaking to people who serviced them during the war years , they discovered that all it needed was a well-placed whack with a hammer on the trailing edge of the aileron . |
| 5 | I sold three and one of the reasons why and I think we got tremendous opportunity to develop an enormous part by just going in and speaking to people to explain to and they can relate to write lots and lots of and you can get a good grip we wo n't do it overnight , it is something you have got to develop . |
| 6 | You can bring some variety and social contact into your life by simply going out and talking to people . |
| 7 | To spend her days reading and writing and finding out more and talking to people , and to spend no time at all trying to outwit awful people like Mother Clare . |
| 8 | ‘ Coming down here and talking to people is better than just looking at boards in a Jobcentre , ’ he said . |
| 9 | It was almost as if , after years of stolidly predictable behaviour , an old and respected great-uncle had declared himself to be a Buddhist or a Muslim or the follower of some obscure Eastern mystic , and , instead of keeping it to himself , insisted on dressing up in a variety of different-coloured kaftans and talking to people loudly about The Meaning of Life at drinks parties . |
| 10 | No-one visiting Guatemala and talking to people from its majority Indian population could fail to see the psychological scars . |
| 11 | You start off by asking questions by the if you like and talking to people , getting to know people , getting next to people . |
| 12 | We always used to get it done through friendliness and chatting to people . ’ |